(Fox News) – Legendary crooner Vic Damone passed away on Sunday at the age of 89. He was born Vito Rocco Farinola in Brooklyn, New York.
Damone entered the talent search on Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts and won in April 1947. This led to his becoming a regular on Godfrey’s show. He met Milton Berle at the studio and Berle got him work at two night clubs. By mid-1947, Damone had signed a contract with Mercury Records.(WIKIPEDIA)
On February 8, 1937, the Senate Judiciary Committee met to consider President Roosevelt’s request.
On this day in 1994, white separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, MS, of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers (pictured below).
Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963)
William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997)
Burroughs was a writer and artist, a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. He wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays.
Richard Remick Smothers and Thomas Bolyn Smothers lll.
Henry Louis Aaron is 84 years old today.
Hank Aaron, nicknamed "Hammer" or "Hammerin’ Hank", is a retired American Major League Baseballright fielder who is currently the senior vice president of the Atlanta Braves. He played 21 seasons for the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves in the National League (NL) and two seasons for the Milwaukee Brewers in the American League, from 1954 through 1976. Aaron held the MLB record for career home runs for 33 years, and he still holds several MLB offensive records. He hit 24 or more home runs every year from 1955 through 1973, and is one of only two players to hit 30 or more home runs in a season at least fifteen times. In 1999, The Sporting News ranked Aaron fifth on its "100 Greatest Baseball Players" list.
The Tet Offensive began on this day in 1968, as Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese provincial capitals.
Adolf Hitler was named the German Chancellor on this day in 1933 by President Paul von Hindenburg (right).
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945)
Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and emerged as a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century. Roosevelt directed the United States federal government during most of the Great Depression, implementing his New Deal domestic agenda in response to the worst economic crisis in U.S. history.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948)
Indian political and spiritual leader and activist Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist on this day in 1948.
In Northern Ireland on this day in 1972, British soldiers shot and killed thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers. The day is known as "Bloody Sunday."
Earle Graser portrayed “The Lone Ranger” in the 1930s.
"The Lone Ranger" was heard on radio for the first time on this day in 1933. The program ran for 2,956 episodes and ended in 1955.
Announcer Fred Foy (far right) during a broadcast of THE LONE RANGER at WXYZ, Detroit. At left are. John Todd (Tonto) and Brace Beemer (the Lone Ranger).
President George W. Bush’s first State of The Union Speech on this day in 2002.
A bomb exploded at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, AL, killing an off-duty policeman and severely wounding a nurse on this day in 1998.Eric Rudolph (below) was charged with this bombing and three other attacks in Atlanta.
Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Raven" was published for the first time in the "New York Evening Mirror on this day in 1845.
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849)
On this day in 1936, Ty Cobb received the most votes of any player on the inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, receiving 222 out of a possible 226 votes (98.2%); no other player received a higher percentage of votes until Tom Seaver in 1992. In 1999, editors at the Sporting News ranked Ty Cobb third on their list of "Baseball’s 100 Greatest Players".
TY COBB, BABE RUTH, HONUS WAGNER, CHRISTY MATHEWSON, WALTER JOHNSON.
Oprah Winfrey(Orpah Gail Winfrey) is 64 today.
Television host and producer Oprah Winfrey was named the most influential woman in the world by TIME magazine and hosted The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated syndicated program on air, from 1986 to 2011. She was crowned Miss Black Tennessee while in college and began co-anchoring the evening news when she was nineteen. Oprah became the world’s first female black billionaire and the richest self-made American woman. She had a net worth over $2 billion in 2013.
On this day in 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws that had been restricting abortions during the first six months of pregnancy. The case (Roe vs. Wade) legalized abortion.
On this day in 1973.
On this day in 1998, Theodore Kaczynski pled guilty to federal charges for his role as the Unabomber. He agreed to life in prison without parole.
Queen Victoria of England died on this day in 1901, after reigning for nearly 64 years. Edward VII, her son (below), succeeded her.
The Arthur Miller drama "The Crucible" opened on Broadway on this day in 1953.
On this day in 1968, "Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In", debuted on NBC - TV.
